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Tessa Shank

Tessa Shank Tessa Shank Tessa Shank

Migiisii mndookwe

Migiisii mndookwe Migiisii mndookwe

Digital Illustration

My focus is on narratives with a teaching or tradition embedded within


 The Seven Grandfathers, The Four Directions 


The repeating lines, connecting us to Mother Earth, the Sky, the Water and the Spirit Realms 



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Turtle Island | Creation Story  

2024


 This is part of a celestial series linking the water and the spirit realms with the sky realm. The spirit is a traveller transcending time and space and spirit. The traveller is a link to the ancestors and the connections we hold to the sky, the land, and the water. 


SKY | WATER | SPIRIT REALM


Otter

2025




Water Spirit

2025




Legend of the Loon and the Stars  (revisited)

2025

    


Kitigan


Wabooz

2025

SKY & SPIRIT REALM


Dreams of Nature, Guiding Me

2024

    

This is a self-portrait, based on my dreams and my connections to the natural world, which has always had a major impact to my creative spirit. Being in an urban environment, where I currently live, I feel less connected to nature and to the land, this drives the inclusion and exploration of nature in my art.

SKY & SPIRIT REALM


Mooz Manitou

2024

  

This artwork was inspired by a vision I had during a Shakey tent ceremony. I saw many things, including a mooz manitou. This work is meant to honour that experience and our mooz relations. It also makes connections of the spirit and sky realms, and highlights the mooz constellation (Pegasus, Lacerta) which is visible in the harvest sky.



Woodland


Woodland Dreamer 

2024




Nanabozho: Transformation(s)

2024



SKY & SPIRIT REALM



Star Woman

2024


  


SKY & SPIRIT REALM


Go Smudge Yourself

2024




SKY | WATER | SPIRIT REALM


Miskwaadesi All The Way Down

2024




SKY | WATER | SPIRIT REALM


Loon Family

2025



Loon Family 

2024






Diving Through a Doorway

2023


Sky & Spirit Realms:

Through the stars & sky above,

Through the rivers & waters below,

They are the gateways to our ancestors.



SKY & SPIRIT REALM



Nanabozho

2023


  

In this piece the ancestors are in a celestial setting, and they are manifesting the spirit Nanabozho through the oral tradition, and he is seen through the vibrations of the sound waves made. waves of oral tradition




SKY & SPIRIT REALM | giizis


Full Moon of March: Awakening 

2023



    KITIGAN

    Anishinaabeg Florals, 2025



      Language of Our Ancestors 

      2022

        

      This piece shows the deeply rooted traditions passed to us from our ancestors, seen as spirits growing in the roots of a strawberry plant. The knowledge is growing though to the seeds who are sharing it with physical realm through the strawberry plant. 

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